Added support for suspending the computer while waiting to restart the application.

Introduced the option to immediately close the application when certain critical/serious crash dialogs are encountered.

Added support for waiting a while for the application to close properly.

Fixes & Improvements

Too many emails may be sent when an application is constantly failing.

Automation set to run when the program starts only runs when AlwaysUp starts.

Delay when starting an application (1 second).

AlwaysUp now formats time-strings with regional settings applied.

Flap detection would occasionally fail when starting the application in the current session.

Improved the monitoring of native 64-bit applications.

Password was not always requested when importing an application from XML.

A shortcut to a path with a space was not handled properly.

Version 6

6.8.5.44 (February 15 2009)

New Features

Added the ability to start/restart the application in a spcified session.

Added the option to stop restarting the application if it fails to start properly after a few attempts.

Allow the sanity check program to signal to reboot the computer or to stop the application and not restart it.

Can now pass the sanity-check, stop and automation programs special variables.

Allow the specification of additional text included with each email.

Fixes & Improvements

Fixed a crash during the installation of some complex applications.

Fixed a problem where an application would always be restarted even if configured to run only once.

Don't send email notifying scheduled restarts/reboots.

Fix for encrypting the mail server password.

6.7.3.52 (August 7 2008)

New Features

(None)

Fixes & Improvements

Fixed a problem with weekly reports not being sent out when daily reports were not selected.

Fixed an error with HTML mail not being properly formatted in some mail systems (Outlook, yahoo mail).

6.7.3.28 (July 13 2008)

New Features

Added support for sending email in plain text instead of HTML.

Added support for Windows Server 2008 (all editions).

Fixes & Improvements

Fixed a problem where AlwaysUp would sometimes stop when it was run in a remote session and that session would close.

Fix for not writing out statistics in advance of a reboot.

Fixed a situation where hang detection did not work for hidden applications.

Improved the "ConnectToSocketSanityCheck" program to retry several times before declaring failure.

Fix for not running the automation script or the stop-program on the same desktop as the application when hidden.

Fixed a bug where an activity report could fail bacause of "insufficient space".

Improved the always-on-top placement for applications with multiple top-level windows.

Fixed a situation where hang detection would occasionally fail on Vista.

6.5.9.72 (December 15 2007)

New Features

(None)

Fixes & Improvements

Don't redirect the standard input stream when capturing output.

Fix for problems parsing the command line to InstallService/UninstallService.

6.5.9.48 (November 29 2007)

New Features

(None)

Fixes & Improvements

Fix for licensing the CLT without installing the GUI package.

6.5.9.41 (November 26 2007)

New Features

(None)

Fixes & Improvements

Fixed a problem where the path to an executable with spaces was handled incorrectly when installing.

6.5.9.33 (November 25 2007)

New Features

Added support for starting an application in the current session. This enables visual elements to be displayed on systems supporting multiple sessions, such as those with remote desktop connections and terminal services capabilities.

Added support for running the startup program whenever the application is restarted.

Added the ability to make the application's main window "always on top" of other windows.

Added the ability to show the application's main window minimized, maximized or normally when it starts.

Running a batch file as the sanity check utility is now supported.

Added supprt for using a special command to stop the application.

The output from console-based applications can now be captured to a file.

Added the ability to "detach" from the application. This stops the service (and the monitoring) and leaves the application running on its own.

"Zombie" processes are now detected and restarted.

Added the ability to pause for a number of seconds before starting the application.

Fixes & Improvements

The sanity check program is now run in the application's session.

Fixed a misleading error message when AlwaysUp does not have access to its key in the registry.

6.0.15.90 (September 12 2007)

New Features

(None)

Fixes & Improvements

Gracefully close the application on scheduled stops.

Improved performance on Vista.

Improved the gracefull closure of the application on system shutdown.

Removed an errant message logged when rebooting the PC.

6.0.11.23 (March 25 2007)

New Features

Allow OEM and Site licensees to brand the application.

Allow for specifying the minute and second when restarting the application regularly.

On multi-processor systems, applications can now be restricted to run on selected CPUs.

Fixes & Improvements

Made various enhancements to fully support Windows Vista.

Dialogs from sub-processes are now dismissed.

Fixed a bug where an activity report could fail bacause of "insufficient space".

Version 5

5.7.2.9 (November 5 2006)

Introduced the option not to show the application's windows when a user logs on.

Standard VB crash dialogs are now handled.

Added support for applications that must be run periodically instead of all the time. For example, an application can now be run every 15 minutes, or every hour on the hour.

Improved the format/precision of numbers in reports.

5.5.7.36 (August 27 2006)

Services can now be installed via XML (instead of using the command line).